Improvement in buckets



UNITED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

RUTI T. BROWN, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,959, dated October 28, 1873 application filed october 7,1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, RUTHTONYHILL BROWN, a resident of the city of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in House-Cleaning Buckets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in` the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

In the drawing, Figure l is a front view of my invention ready for use. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a house-cleaning bucket with all necessary utensils arranged in convenient receptacles, to prevent the necessity of continual ascending and descending of step-ladders and other elevated places in houses.

The bucket A is made, by preference, with a at back, to enable it to be hung to a nail or hook when it is desired to use it on a ladder or other elevated place, and is provided with a hole, a, in its back. The bucket is provided with a suitable handle, B, and has several pockets on its front side, as also a small box with a cover. The three pockets C D E are to contain sponge, soap, brushes, chamois, and cloths, the box F polishing` material, and the hooks Gr are for hanging the dusters on, so as to have all the necessary articles to dust, cleanse, and polish assembled together for convenient use.

The advantages of this bucket will be readily appreciated by housekeepers and others having use for the same, and prevent the unnecessary waste of soap, &c., occasioned by allowing the soap to remain in the water during the ascending and descending of step-ladders, 85e., as also the convenience of having all the necessary articles for dusting, cleaning, and polishing together in one article.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent, is-

The house-cleaning bucket herein described, composed of bucket A, and pockets O D E, and box or tray F, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of October, 1873. l

RUTH TONYHILL BROWN.

Witnesses:

JAivrEs OKANE, Jr., WILLIAM HENRY VYMAN. 

